What's the difference between astylar and pilaster?
Astylar
Definition:
(a.) Without columns or pilasters.
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Pilaster
Definition:
(n.) An upright architectural member right-angled in plan, constructionally a pier (See Pier, 1 (b)), but architecturally corresponding to a column, having capital, shaft, and base to agree with those of the columns of the same order. In most cases the projection from the wall is one third of its width, or less.
Example Sentences:
(1) But it's obvious from the start that there are no deferential nods to Egyptian, classical, modernist or postmodernist modes, no reassuring "quotes" like the over-cute pilasters that adorn the extension to London's National Gallery by Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown.
(2) The skull itself may be briken (usually at the interpilasters or the weak points of the pilasters) or dented.
(3) After nine years of dealing with bureaucracy, raising funds and building work, the massive structure rose from the ground with a 60-metre high tower, a 30-metre long transept and a 50-metre long nave bordered by pilasters and arches.